Morphine is a type of strong pain relief medicine called an opioid. This page is about the use of morphine for pain relief in children.
Learn about techniques for pain management and the treatment of pain.
Learn about pain relief medication and how to administer it, including patient controlled analgesia.
Learn techniques to help distract your child from, and manage, their pain in the hospital and at home.
Find out how PCA and NCA help your child get relief from severe, short-term pain in the hospital.
An overview of the components of a pain management plan for children.
Learn about the process and goals of pain assessment to provide the information necessary to initiate optimal pain treatment strategies.
Learn about other types of pain, including recurrent, procedural, and palliative pain. Read about how they are treated. Lumbar punctures are discussed.
Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.
Learn about the 3P approach to pain management, which is a combination of psychological, physical and pharmacological (medications) strategies.
Learn to differentiate between myth and truth concerning children's pain. There are many common misconceptions of pain that should be dispelled.
This page give advice on how to relieve a child's pain at home.
Pain can be caused by cancer, procedures, treatments or symptoms of cancer and treatments. Find out how you can manage and how your health-care team can help you.
Learn about the benefits of using massage and TENS for effective pain management.
Read about physical treatments for pain management. These treatments are aimed at treating pain and its underlying causes.
There are various physical methods available to treat JIA pain including heat, cold, massage, and exercise. Learn how you can use these techniques for pain relief.
Find out how acute pain is identified and assessed, at home and in medical settings, in children not old enough to speak.
Try these yoga poses when you wake up to relieve morning stiffness, or throughout the day to relieve tension.
Your child's pain team may recommend opioids to help them manage acute (sudden) or persistent pain. Read about opioids, some of their side effects and how to manage side effects of opioids.
Discover how to use the 3P approach to manage cancer-related pain in children.
Discusses pain management for common childhood pain and injuries such as ear infections, colic, and injections.
Discover the CARD system, which offers strategies your child or teen can use to cope with the pain and fear associated with vaccination.
Most children have at least some pain after an operation, which is called post-operative pain. Learn about relieving a child's post-operative pain at home.
